Walter Edge

Walter Edge (20 November 1873-29 October 1956) was Governor of New Jersey (R) from 15 January 1917 to 16 May 1919 (succeeding James Fairman Fielder and preceding William Nelson Runyon) and from 18 January 1944 to 21 January 1947 (succeeding Charles Edison and preceding Alfred E. Driscoll, also serving as Senator from 19 May 1919 to 21 November 1929, succeeding David Baird and preceding David Baird, Jr..

Biography
Walter Edge was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 20 November 1873, and he began working for the Atlantic City, New Jersey newspaper Atlantic Review in 1888 at the age of 14. Edge founded his own newspaper in 1893 and created the Press of Atlantic City in 1895, making it the dominant newspaper in Atlantic County. His successful advertising and publishing businesses made him very wealthy, and he became a member of the executive committee of the US Republican Party. In 1909, he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly, and he called for a ten-hour workday for female workers and for better safety laws. In 1917, he ran for governor with Enoch Thompson as his campaign manager, winning the election; in 1919, he was elevated to the US Senate after another successful campaign. In 1919, he sponsored an act that allowed for national banks to engage in international trade through subsidiaries. In 1929, he left the senate to become ambassador to France, serving in this post until 1933. In 1944, he was elected Governor again, and he dealt with the transition to a peacetime economy after the end of World War II, handling a wave of strikes. He left office in 1947, and he died in 1956 at the age of 82.